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Dear hiogis,

the first year of hiogi is almost over and we are looking forward to an exciting 2009. We would like to say thank you for all of you “first-movers”, who trusted us and who joined our unique knowledge community! In 2009 we would like to grow hiogi also in the English-speaking world and look forward to many questions and answers from anyone out there. hiogi is special! hiogis help each other with advice and knowledge. We try to overcome the anonymous content of search engines and try to add a personal flavour to adhoc informations, which should be very useful while traveling. Please spread the word and help hiogi grow, so that many people enjoy having “a good friend” at the side all the time. We all benefit from new ways of getting in touch and exchanging tips and advice. One persons asks and many will help. How cool is that!?

Anna, Nicole, Maddin, Chris and I wish you all the best for 2009!

Dear hiogis, we wish you Merry Christmas and a delightful time with your families. It has been a wunderful year and it is so exciting to see the open hiogi community and the idea of everybody helping each other out with tips, knowledge and guidance grow… We look forward to an even more exciting year with all of you.

Anna, Stefie, Chris, Maddin and Bjoern

Check out the new landing page of our hiogi application for the iPhone or iPod touch. Check it out…

We just launched our new web application for the iPhone or iPod touch. Simply enter http://iphone.hiogi.com into your safari browser and click on the plus icon to add hiogi as a bookmark to your home screen!

You can instantly ask free questions, get insider tips and advice or browse through our open archive with thousands of interesting questions and answers.

You will be amazed about all the stuff you didn’t know!

New functions inlude the instant feedback functionality, a new watchlist feature, detailed profile and ranking pages plus the leave a comment option in order to discuss the topics of interest.

Here are the favorite topics of our hiogi members:

* the best restaurants in town or romantic places
* directions or public transportation schedules
* concerts or parties on the weekend
* opening hours, addresses or telephone numbers of local stores
* sports results and ticket prices of the favorite team
* product reviews or price comparisons
* Wikipedia summaries

hiogi button on home screen:

home screen with latest activities / answers and questions:

Add hiogi to your home screen:

Our community needs to grow in order for all of us to best enjoy the answer battles and in order to receive timely answers while traveling. Therefore we will give away a new iPod touch every week to the hiogi who invited the most people. Simply go to www.hiogi.com/webteam and participate in our webteam special by using the automated invitation options directly from your webmailer or online contact list. You can also forward your individual invitation link to your friends by adding your NICKNAME to this URL:

http://www.hiogi.com/users/register/NICKNAME

Every new hiogi who used this link or who added you as the hiogi member that recommended the site will be counted!

We wish you the best.

Your hiogi team!